Archive for August 2024

Lead author Heather Burrell Ward, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, explains, “Cognitive impairment is highly prevalent in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. There are currently no medications to treat cognitive impairment, resulting in significant disability. This impairment is frequently present by the time an individual has their first psychotic break, making early detection and intervention critical. Our current study is part of our work to understand and treat the medication-resistant symptoms of psychotic disorders.”

After a presentation by the provincial Department of Social Development to the standing committee on Social Development earlier in August, the committee wrote to Justice Minister Thembisile Simelane, asking for attacks against social workers attacks to be reclassified as an ‘offence against the state’, with harsher legal consequences.

Americans own approximately 400 million firearms and the country carries the unfortunate distinction of being the only one in the world in which guns are known to be the leading cause of child and adolescent death. Today, Americans live with around 1.2 guns per capita – double that of the next-highest scoring country, Yemen. Despite having less than 5 per cent of the global population, the US possesses nearly half of the world’s civilian-owned guns. Moreover, in recent years Americans have witnessed a surge in gun sales and gun-related deaths, unfolding against a backdrop of increasingly lenient gun laws across states.

Dr. Siobhan Stevenson, an expert in library science, explains why library management, in some cases, fails to respond to library workers’ concerns about safety. She also noted: “This is not a library problem. This is a political problem. This is a social problem. And to get past it, we need the political will to change our thinking around how we fund or how we want to fund social services,”

More than 320 cases of suspected identity fraud have been referred for investigation by welfare inspectors, according to the Department of Social Protection…. Last year, more than 630,000 customer welfare claims were reviewed, resulting in savings of €526 million. While the €115 million worth of welfare overpayments were identified, repayments of nearly €88 million were made last year.

The purpose of this CMCS Informational Bulletin (CIB) is to highlight federal renewal
requirements and available flexibilities to promote continuity of coverage for individuals eligible for Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) through Medicaid.

In many countries scientists have experienced a loss of academic freedom in recent years. This trend has come in for criticism on the basis of fundamental principles. However, there has been no research to date on whether the degree of academic freedom also has an impact on a society’s ability to produce innovations. For the first time an international team of researchers has studied the relationship between academic freedom and innovation output.

While rates of methamphetamine-related psychiatric hospitalizations increased 68% over the study period, opioid-related hospitalizations decreased by 22%. Methamphetamine rate increases may be attributed to methamphetamines ubiquitousness and affordability, as well as the lack of resources available to manage methamphetamine use. Why opioid-involved psychiatric hospitalizations declined is less clear but may be related to the lethality of fentanyl.

In the mid-1980s, Park Village Apartments could charitably have been viewed as needing some attention. The low-income apartment complex in Stockton, California, was in disrepair, with leaking roofs, sewage issues, abandoned cars, and stretches of dirt where landscaping should have been. Above: By 1995, construction was complete.